Surprise find in baseball field!

Sobo

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Apr 29, 2011
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Hello Treasurenet been a while since I've had anything worthwhile to post, actually meant to post a few days ago :laughing7:. Anyways the following is from 5 hunts at various locations, was already pumped a few days ago from getting A mercury dime, a war nickel, v nickel, buffalo, some old coppers and neat relics.

So today I planned to hit a local park/baseball field with my brother, wasn't expecting too much only pulled a couple silver dimes and tons of clad from it. But either way was gonna post my finds for the past few hunts when I got back, but man oh man didn't expect what we found today. Our day started pretty slow, only was finding trash and some clad. After about 4 hours got a nice coin hit on the ace at 6"+, dug down and suddenly the signal disappeared...so thought weird and saw it being discriminated as a pull-tab. So switched over to jewelry mode, and what do you know was a nice 1.1 gram (very thin but nice) piece of silver.
So you know how it is once you find some silver, your blood starts pumping. Decided to go right on the edge of the field because the sun was almost down for the day, and had luck at that area before. Started getting more clad, when...suddenly get a nice super solid deep coin signal. Started digging...got down 8 inches started to get worried was thinking great another can :BangHead:. But it sounded slightly different then a can, was losing hope on this signal as I was down about 9-10", but thought went that far may as well see what it is. Then bam, next scoop had a big silver in it, looked like a half...started cleaning it...and it was a 1767 coin, no idea how it got there but NH is pretty old :treasurechest:.

That about ends the day hehe, did find an interesting button if anyone can ID it that'd be cool, not even sure if it's old. Oh and any info on the coin would be cool :icon_thumleft:. Thanks for reading and god bless.
 

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I would be super excited about that 1767 silver, I can't believe the shape it's in!!! I'm looking but I'm sure there are others that know.
Congrats!!!!
 

Sweet surprise.Congrats.HH.
 

Wow........ now that would get anybody's blood pumping.:icon_thumleft:
 

I didn't know they played baseball in 1767
 

wow sweet silver save !!!!!!!!!!..you know I have found my oldest coin in a baseball field..and most of my silver lol.. but dont tell anyone its my super silver secret :laughing7:
 

O ya and i have to vote BANNER on this 1 cuzzz its just to AWESOME !
 

Time to research what was in the area way before the school!
You may be able to zero in on the "old" section.
Great find!
 

That is a fantastic find and the coin is in really great shape. Congratulations

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That is one sweet coin man!
 

Time to research what was in the area way before the school!
You may be able to zero in on the "old" section.
Great find!

Yep gotta head to the library and do some research! Thanks everyone for the compliments :)
 

Actually not uncommon in New England - alot of schools were built on old farmlands - have gotten
all kinds of colonial and other old coins in school fields over the years - found my first 1700s coin at age
13 in my back yard - neighborhood only went back to the 1940s - was told before that it was farm field
since town began
AWESOME FIND - WTG!
 

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